SANDY PARKER REPORT, VOL. 35, ISSUE 47, FEBRUARY 13, 2012 International Fur Newswith Sandy Parker Hong Kong Fur & Fashion Fair Attracting Record Numbers This year’s edition of the Hong Kong Fur & Fashion Fair is shaping up to be even bigger than last year’s record-breaking show. Despite Europe’s debt crisis and still-recovering economies elsewhere, [...]

The Kopenhagen Fur February auction concluded Friday with the offering of the White and Mahogany type mink. The White mink continued the trend set the first day of the auction with mutation mink selling to strong demand at rising price levels.  The Mahogany collection also sold well and in line with the price levels established [...]

SANDY PARKER REPORT, VOL. 35, ISSUE 46, FEBRUARY 6, 2012 International Fur Newswith Sandy Parker Despite U.S. Weather, Upcoming Sales Attracting Record Number of Buyers That retail fur sales are directly affected by the weather has been well documented, so it should be no surprise that this winter’s inconsistent weather has resulted in an irregular [...]

Today presented a huge victory for animal agriculture in Sioux City Iowa’s  Woodbury County Courthouse.  Victor VanOrden and Kellie Marshall appeared to enter pleas regarding their attempted attack on a local mink farm last October 10.  Mr. VanOrden appearing first, entered a guilty plea to one count of the state Animal Enterprise Terrorism charge, a [...]

SANDY PARKER REPORT, VOL. 35, ISSUE 45, JANUARY 30, 2012 The following extract is reproduced with permission from Sandy Parker Reports, Weekly International Fur News. Sandy Parker has been covering the fur industry for more than four decades. For most of that time he has published a weekly newsletter, detailing results of international pelt auctions, [...]